NHS England considered using Palantir tech to manage strike disruption
The UK government considered using technology from Palantir – the US spy-tech firm – to help manage the National Health Service while it was disrupted by severe industrial action. But it ultimately opted to use spreadsheets instead.
In January, Lord Markham, a Conservative peer and health minister, responded to a parliamentary question asking how many users of NHS England's installation of Palantir Foundry software have access to data or dashboards for each purpose listedIn the early days of the pandemic, the NHS contracted Palantir, controversially letting a £23 million contract without competition or prior scrutiny.
"NHS England is not using – and has never used – Foundry to analyze the impact of industrial action, nor is it linking strike data with human resources data," a spokesperson said. NHS England said that patients would not be allowed to block the transfer of their data under the National Data Opt-outs programme since the data was due to be"anonymized in accordance with the Information Commissioner Office's Anonymisation Code of Practice before being released."
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